As the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region faces heavy snow and strong winds, thousands remain without power in Michigan.

Satellite imagery showed the formation of the eye of Tropical Cyclone Hayley ahead of making landfall in Western Australia on Tuesday0.The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said Cyclone Hayley made landfall near the northern Dampier Peninsula as a Severe Category 3 system,

“As the cold air passes over the unfrozen and relatively warm waters of the Great Lakes, warmth and moisture are transferred into the lowest portion of the atmosphere. The air rises, clouds form and grow into narrow band that produces 2 to 3 inches of snow per hour or more,” the NWS says.

Travel is probably going to be not just hazardous, but almost impossible across a large area of Michigan when this storm hits Sunday night and into Monday.

Winter Storm Ezra disrupted holiday travel across the U.S. Northeast, Midwest and Great Lakes for a third straight day on Monday, causing thousands of flight delays and hundreds of cancellations as airlines scrambled to recover and meteorologists warned of a brewing "bomb cyclone" that could further snarl trips ahead of the New Year's holiday.

While hurricanes are fueled by warm ocean waters, bomb cyclones are "cold-core" systems. They are typically triggered when a cold air mass from the north collides with a warm, moist air mass, creating a sharp temperature gradient that provides the energy for the storm to deepen quickly.

Veteran environmental activist Hemantha Withanage of Sri Lankan NGO the Center for Environmental Justice has been a regular presence at United Nations climate conferences for years, repeatedly calling for compensation for countries in the Global South severely impacted by climate change-related disasters.

Tropical Cyclone Hayley has been downgraded to a tropical low. Wind gusts up to 158km/h were recorded in the cyclone's path at remote communities along the remote Kimberley coast. Tropical Cyclone Hayley has been downgraded to a tropical low, as it moves ...